I got the original issue of this model decades ago. I think Testor did a re-issue way back when. So now Polar Lights did a re-re-issue. I'm curious how the molds have held up.
@@oscarslagfoot the sprue stuff says testors in the Lindberg model kits, well atleast the Lindberg Roswell UFO kit does the one that looks like a stingray kinda.. its on youtube.. Lindberg Roswell UFO kit review by: Dan's Model Bench
The16-page color pamphlet was missing. The booklet is supposed to be rich in background/history and illustrate paint schemes. Now I have to wing it. I'm disappointed, but it's not a deal-killer. The shell parts are highly detailed, surprisingly so. The problem with clear plastic is that it scratches easily, so you must be extremely careful. Also, painting is a bitch. I'm faced with a huge masking problem in order to get the model to look like the cover art! And also had to buy an airbrush, which I've never used. But airbrushing is the only way to get this thing looking decent. The items on the tree are well-constructed and detailed and fit together perfectly. However, the 1-inch alien figures seemed at first unrealistically tiny in scale to the craft. (But they're not!) A thirteen-inch diameter shell at 1:48 scale would indicate the actual craft is about 52' in diameter, exactly what Bob Lazar reported. Four-foot characters in a 52-ft craft may seem eye-popping, but it's not unrealistic when you consider that we 6-ft creatures travel in 40-ft long airliners with a 36-ft wingspan, and we're almost twice as tall as the EBEs. A four-foot EBE on a 1:48 scale would be 1" in height, so it's right on. Technically, as a long-term student of ET spacecraft, I would have expected the flight deck to be much thicker, serving as a giant capacitor for storing electro-gravitic energy. Lazar doesn't mention this, but think about it..., just like an automobile, the craft would need an energy source to power-up and facilitate stable flight (and preserve computer memory if it has one). Oddly, Bob Lazar never mentions power storage, though. So it's just me, raising an issue that should be obvious. Why hasn't anyone mentioned this (energy storage topic) in the huge universe of CZcams-ers about Lazar and and the spacecraft he worked on.
maybe if you say You really wish the texture was on the outside a few more times.. it could happen, never know i mean we are buying a thing that "doesn't exist" as a scale model
I agree. But that gives you some creative liberty to make it your own and come up with stuff to make it interesting. Its nice to build something that your not replicating now and again.
I got the original issue of this model decades ago. I think Testor did a re-issue way back when. So now Polar Lights did a re-re-issue. I'm curious how the molds have held up.
Lindberg was the name of the company that produced these.
@@oscarslagfoot the sprue stuff says testors in the Lindberg model kits, well atleast the Lindberg Roswell UFO kit does the one that looks like a stingray kinda..
its on youtube.. Lindberg Roswell UFO kit review by: Dan's Model Bench
The16-page color pamphlet was missing. The booklet is supposed to be rich in background/history and illustrate paint schemes. Now I have to wing it. I'm disappointed, but it's not a deal-killer.
The shell parts are highly detailed, surprisingly so. The problem with clear plastic is that it scratches easily, so you must be extremely careful. Also, painting is a bitch. I'm faced with a huge masking problem in order to get the model to look like the cover art! And also had to buy an airbrush, which I've never used. But airbrushing is the only way to get this thing looking decent.
The items on the tree are well-constructed and detailed and fit together perfectly. However, the 1-inch alien figures seemed at first unrealistically tiny in scale to the craft. (But they're not!) A thirteen-inch diameter shell at 1:48 scale would indicate the actual craft is about 52' in diameter, exactly what Bob Lazar reported. Four-foot characters in a 52-ft craft may seem eye-popping, but it's not unrealistic when you consider that we 6-ft creatures travel in 40-ft long airliners with a 36-ft wingspan, and we're almost twice as tall as the EBEs. A four-foot EBE on a 1:48 scale would be 1" in height, so it's right on.
Technically, as a long-term student of ET spacecraft, I would have expected the flight deck to be much thicker, serving as a giant capacitor for storing electro-gravitic energy. Lazar doesn't mention this, but think about it..., just like an automobile, the craft would need an energy source to power-up and facilitate stable flight (and preserve computer memory if it has one). Oddly, Bob Lazar never mentions power storage, though. So it's just me, raising an issue that should be obvious. Why hasn't anyone mentioned this (energy storage topic) in the huge universe of CZcams-ers about Lazar and and the spacecraft he worked on.
I remember that model.
maybe if you say You really wish the texture was on the outside a few more times.. it could happen, never know i mean we are buying a thing that "doesn't exist" as a scale model
Any follow up on this?
Those have been out for years, they're called Hub Caps 🤣
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working on this model myself. its very basic looking. one needs to be very artistic to make it look interesting
I agree. But that gives you some creative liberty to make it your own and come up with stuff to make it interesting. Its nice to build something that your not replicating now and again.